Justified quotes
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"Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again."
"A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous."
"A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified."
"All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified."
"Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith."
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"I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing."
"No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place."
"Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength."
"Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society."
"Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified."
"Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives"
"We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners."
"The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior."
"Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned."
"Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence."
"The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ."
"Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept."
"There are no justified resentments."
"Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?"
"I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough."
"If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you."
"Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity."
"For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified."
"This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified."
"Justified means just as if you've never sinned."
